Thursday, May 30, 2013

Seeing Double

In February, when I gave our granddaughter The Flower Girl quilt for her birthday, my daughter-in-law asked if I would make a matching one. Now that our granddaughters share a room it will be fun for them to have matching quilts on their beds.

I quickly got online and ordered all the fabric needed to make another.

Usually I don't like making the same thing twice, especially out of the same fabrics, but this pattern is so easy to chain piece.It went together really fast once I got everything cut out.

I had long arm Susie quilt it the same as the other one.

It's an all-over pattern called

Country Flowers.

The only thing I did differently was when I bound this quilt I followed this great tutorial I saw on BariJ's blog.

I have to say it is a lot more work but makes the hand sewing so much easier.

No pins or binding clips are needed.

Who knew the Elmer's glue we used as kids could be used to help with binding?

This will be delivered next week when we visit our son and his family.

Here they are side by side, sort of...

I purposely did not look at the fabric combinations when piecing the second quilt, just to make them a bit different, but of course, still matching.

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You're the best granny Di - well apart from my mum that is ;) The quilts look stunning together and are sure to be loved by your grand daughters and hopefully midnight feasts and ghost stories will be part of the deal too.